(moved to Haskell-cafe)
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 12:52, Gregory Wright wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:39 AM, Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
> > Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> >> I have included a binding to gsl_sf_gamma in the darcs repo of
> >> GSLHaskell:
> >> http://dis.um.es/~alberto/GSLHaskell/doc/GSL-Special.html#v%3Agamma> >> I will try to upload to hackage a recent version of the library in
> >> a few days.
> >> Alberto
> >
> > It occurs to me that generating the binding for all the GSL
> > "Special" functions by hand may be labor intensive. Would it be
> > reasonable to have a (perhaps customized) tool generate the
> > wrapping code?
Absolutely! I am busy working on my applications and rewriting the internal
support for the linear algebra wrappers, so I usually add new functions only
when I need them for my own work. But a GSL library without the simplest
functions is not very useful...
> I have some functions that make wrapping the GSL special functions
> much simpler. I've used them
> to wrap all of the Airy and Bessel functions. The process could be
> automated, but there are a few
> more cases than convenient. (For example, the computationally
> expensive functions take an additional
> argument specifying how much precision is desired.) It wouldn't be
> too much work to automate the
> most common cases (double arg, double return and double arg, error
> struct return); perhaps doing the
> remainder by hand is reasonable.
That's also right, so I have written a (very crude and ad-hoc) tool to
generate wrappers for the most common cases. The results look promising:
http://perception.inf.um.es/~aruiz/darcs/HSSL/doc/html/GSL-Special.html
They are available in the new version of the library. In principle it is
already working but needs more testing. I plan to upload a version to hackage
(the repo can be found in the GSLHaskell web page).
A problem with automatic wrappers is that we should still add a small piece of
useful haddock documentation and appropriate tests for each function.
> I also have bindings for all of the ODE integration routines and all
> of the numerical differentiation
> routines. All are low level, just exposing the underlying GSL
> routines without any "convenience wrapper".
> I can make them available if anyone is interested.
>> Best Wishes,
> Greg
Good! I'd like to include a high level interface to the ODE routines. Perhaps
it could be based on your bindings...
Best regards,
Alberto